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staycation

A vacation that is spent at one's home enjoying all that home and one's home environs have to offer.
Even though I live and work in New York, I don't always get to enjoy all it has to offer, what with my work commitments, but I sure did have an awesome time here during my spring staycation.
staycation by SVS September 14, 2008
Word of the Day on May 23, 2008

Staycation

A reprieve from daily activities of work and chores; taking personal time for more important pieces of life... such as anal sex, the rusty trombone, and rewarding your significant other for getting you flowers with ridiculous sexual favors.
Thanks for sending those flowers to work to show people I am loved, lets take a staycation so you can tear my ass apart.

This Friday was my last day of work before my staycation, so I stopped by Walgreen's to buy a 12 pack of personal lubricant.
Staycation by JRockdown June 30, 2011

staycation

When the boss goes on vacation, or for some other reason is out of the office and the employees that stay behind get a vacation from petty micro-managing.
Work should be pretty relaxed tomorrow with Bob away at that training. It should be a nice staycation!
staycation by candyland1234 September 27, 2012

staycation

With the price of gas soaring, a staycation is what most Americans will experience during the summer of 2008.
staycation by BeachSaint May 24, 2008

staycation

1. The equivalent of being unemployed for a week.
2. A chance to sit around and look at all the reasons you wanted to get away for a week in the first place.
Man, since I took that staycation, I really feel for all the guys who lost their jobs.

All I did on my staycation was chores

Staycation

I decided to take my vacation time at home and just take a Staycation.
Staycation by CromwellsWorld July 1, 2009
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A vacation, feeling more like an obligation, that involves visiting or staying with family.
So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
Oblication by kimmerr May 5, 2011
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For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
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Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
Northstarring by Light Bearer October 22, 2026
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